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22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
17/05/2013: Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
06/05/2013: ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
05/05/2013: Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
03/05/2013: The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security
service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state,
Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.
03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
03/05/2013: It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more
so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers
crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained
01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against
it
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|  31/08/2012, ‘Massacres caused by right-wing extremism and Islamophobia’
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit, Oslo
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|  06/06/2012, “Red-Green” government forced to retreat
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit (CWI Norway)
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|  20/04/2012, Extreme right-winger boasts of killing 77 during court trial
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)
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|  19/09/2011, Labour Party gains less then predicted
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit, CWI, Norway
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|  25/08/2011, Interest among people to organize has increased
Trond Sverre Kolltveit and Elise Kolltveit, from Offensiv, weekly paper
of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)
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|  25/07/2011, How should the workers’ movement respond?
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)
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| 16/01/2007, ‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger
Johan Sand, CWI, Norway |
| 26/06/2002, "The sad statistics about African economic performance have become so
familiar as almost to lose their ability to shock: that, for example,
more than half the population lives on less than $1 a day, 250 million
people have no drinking water, and two-thirds of the world’s cases of
Aids are in southern Africa.
Trond- Sverre Kolltveit, CWI Norway, 26 June 2002 |
| 19/06/2002, Several demonstrations are planned to protest against the World Bank’s
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) Conference in
the Norwegian capital, Oslo, 24-26 June.
Trond-Sverre Kolltveit, Norway, 17 June 2002 |
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